Disaster Films that Don't End Well

How about Planet of The Apes, ok not a disaster movie but you know that George Taylor will not cope with what was revealed at the end.

YOU MANAICS YOU BLEW IT UP! DAMM YOU
 
Not so much a disaster movie, as a horror movie.

Race with the devil.

Those people are not getting out of that one alive.

Also, I know it's a true story, but United 93. :eek:
 
Actually I thought the movie ended with a shot from space showing the entire northern hemisphere in the grip of a new ice age - and most of the population of the US moving south to mexico.
 
A bang would've been more fun. Still quite good though.

I thought the ending to 28 weeks later was quite a cheery one.
Here you go, Frenchies. A gift from England! :D
 
Cloverfield wasn't so happy.

And don't even get me started on The Mist. That wasn't even poignant/sad, it was just AWFUL and did not make sense. I was so angry!
If it had to be a sad ending, I'd have made it so that he killed his son and the other two, then went outside and was killed by a monster. Or at the very least some time should have elapsed before the military arrived and made everything ok. That ending, where we see the mother who left at the start alive and well, strongly suggested that Carmody and her nutjob crew were right and not only that; they'd be saved in a couple of minutes. ARGH.
 
To reverse it, The Andromeda Strain starts in a pretty bad way, with an entire town (bar two people) totally wiped out.

Most movies start pretty normally, then introduce the life/world threatening problem, but The Andromeda Strain doesn't waste any time with that.
 
I saw the movie Boy in the Striped Pyjamas the other day, I know it's not a disaster movie but it ended in a way I thought it wouldn't.

Fair play, they could have made it a happier ending for at least one of the kiRAB but no.
 
As others have said. "Knowing" is the movie for you! If you want an intelligent one, try "On the Beach". But that doesn't have all the rollercoaster thrills and effects.
 
I keep meaning to get the DVRAB of that. It was brilliant- just what television drama should be like.

The movie doesn't really appeal. Apparently they really wuss out on a lot of the stuff at the end. Not sure by how much, though.
 
I remember vaguely there was TV movie about a spaceship traveling to Mars or some planet anyhow.

At some point into the mission something disastrous happens to the Earth, an asteroid if remember. Mission control relays reports of the disaster as Earth is slowly wrecked, until eventually transmissions stop. Most of the crew commit suicide or kill each other due to the distress of what happening and the realisation that they cannot return home.

If i remember correctly two surviving crew member suddenly somehow discover that they aren't actually onboard a spaceship but in a simulation to test stress and eventually find a way out.

If remember correctly the last shot is the pair of them standing looking a wrecked city shrouded in a dust storm, the actual Earth suffering an actual disaster whilst they where inside.

This was from well over a decade ago, so the details may be a bit wrong.
 
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